User blog comment:Hayds126/Why does this game have so much grinding/@comment-31800919-20170704055251

As what the others commented the problem with this is in the updates it self, it takes months for each update to come out and because of this the mods place the gyms level accordingly to the lvl cap, its perfect for the old players but bad for the new players because of the high levels. I think after all gyms and elite for be implemented they will either arrange the levels to how it should be or leave it as it is.